William Sutcliffe
William Sutcliffe | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 9, 1967 Birmingham, UK |
| Died | Glasgow |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | Maggie O'Farrell |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | |
| www | |
William Sutcliffe (born 1971) is a British novelist. He has written many acclaimed novels, spanning genres from satire to YA fiction. He is on Twitter @Will_Sutcliffe8.
Books
Sutcliffe started his career with a novel about school life entitled New Boy (1996), which was followed by Are You Experienced? (1997), a pre-university gap year novel, in which a group of young Brits travel to India without really knowing what to expect or what to do there. The Love Hexagon (2000) is about six young Londoners who have difficulty committing themselves to a relationship. Bad Influence (2004), is about Olly, a 10-year-old growing up in a North London suburb with his family, and the plot centres on the complex knot of his childhood friendships. Sutcliffe's 2008 book Whatever Makes You Happy (2008) is about interfering mothers of men who refuse to grow up. This has recently been adapted into a film by Netflix, under the new title Otherhood.[1] His first young adult novel, The Wall (2013), tells of a boy in Israel's occupied territories whose discovery of a tunnel underneath the barrier wall sets off a spiraling chain of events after he goes under and is saved from his attackers by a girl on the other side. [2] Following on from the success of his first YA novel, Sutcliffe wrote his second, Concentr8, in (2015).
Sutcliffe's novels could be categorised as humorous. New Boy has much authentic material in it that refers to actual incidents from his life at Haberdashers', although it would be going too far to call it "autobiographical".[3]
In 2009, he donated the short story Sandcastles: A Negotiation to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Sutcliffe's story was published in the 'Fire' collection.[4]
More recently, Sutcliffe has been writing more humorous books for a younger audience, with his Circus of Thieves trilogy. He has also written a humorous novel for teenagers, The Gifted, the Talented and Me. The book had an extremely good reception, gaining positive reviews in many newspapers. [5]
Early Life
Sutcliffe was born in 1971, in London. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read English literature. He later worked as a TV researcher before becoming a novelist.
Current Life
He is married to the novelist Maggie O'Farrell, whom he met whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge in the early 1990s. They live in Edinburgh, Scotland, with their three children.
Bibliography
Books for Adults
- New Boy (1996)
- Are You Experienced? (1997)
- The Love Hexagon (2000)
- Whatever Makes You Happy (2008)
Books for Adults and Young Adults
- Bad Influence (2004)
- The Wall (2013)
- Concentr8 (2015)
- We See Everything (2017)
- The Gifted, Talented and Me (2019)
Books for Younger Readers
- Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom (2014)
- Circus of Thieves on the Rampage (2015)
- Circus of Thieves and the Comeback Caper (2016)
See also
References
- ^ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4180560/
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/13/the-wall-william-sutcliffe-review
- ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3614529/A-writers-life-William-Sutcliffe.html
- ^ Oxfam: Ox-Tales Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.ft.com/content/380ce944-85e0-11e9-b861-54ee436f9768
External links
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- British Jewish writers
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- 20th-century British novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- Living people
- British male novelists
- 20th-century British male writers
- 21st-century British male writers